Coaching is customized, relevant, and focused support for classroom teachers.
Coaching provides individuals and small groups the opportunity to learn just what they need when they need it.
Teachers become more motivated to act on new skills learned because coaching is ongoing and personal.
Why Peer Coaching?
Guidance is essential for successful innovation of technology (Zhao et al., 2001).
The mentor can provide relevant support materials, model lessons using technology, and give feedback the teacher will be able to use to go to the next step.
The coaching process is an onging porcess that invovles buiding trust while developing a relationship between mentor and teacher.
The coaching process involves classroom observations, ongoing constuctive feedback, co-authoring lessons and projects, reviewing what worked, what did not work, and why. The GROW model is: Goals-determine outcomes Reality-understand the situation Options-review choices available When- agree on indivudual learning plan
Why Peer Coaching?
The coaching process involves classroom observations, ongoing constuctive feedback, co-authoring lessons and projects, reviewing what worked, what did not work, and why. The GROW model is:
Goals-determine outcomes
Reality-understand the situation
Options-review choices available
When- agree on indivudual learning plan